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Amiwo

Name: Amiwo
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Benin
Ingredients: 250g Corn grits; 3 Tomato; 1 Onion; 1 tbsp Tomato paste; 2 tbsp Palm oil; 1 Chili pepper; 1 tsp Salt; 700ml Water

Side Dish

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Cornmeal worked into a stiff paste in a tomato and onion broth — Benin's red staple.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Amiwo is a dish of the Fon people of southern Benin: cornmeal is worked stiff in a broth of tomato, onion, and palm oil into a reddish paste. Eaten with chicken stew or fried fish and often made for celebrations, it's more flavorful than the white versions.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a village kitchen in southern Benin, red corn paste is worked in a big pot and plated with chicken stew.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Corn grits 250g
Tomato 3
Onion 1
Tomato paste 1 tbsp
Palm oil 2 tbsp
Chili pepper 1
Salt 1 tsp
Water 700ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Blend the tomatoes, onion, and chili.
Heat the palm oil in a pot and fry the vegetable purée and tomato paste for 10 minutes.
Add water and salt and bring to a boil.
Add the maize meal a little at a time, working vigorously with a wooden spoon.
Work on low for 15 minutes; once firm, shape into rounds.

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